It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to
persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
—Carl Sagan
Flight of the FINCH through the Java Wilderness, Michael Orlov and Moshe Sipper. IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, volume 15, issue 2, pp. 166–182 (April 2011). DOI. (A draft with more legible figures.)
Optimized Random Number Generation in an Interval, Michael Orlov. Information Processing Letters, volume 109, issue 13, pp. 722–725 (June 2009). DOI.
Random Numbers in a Range using Generic Programming, Michael Orlov. Dr. Dobb's Journal, volume 33, issue 4, pp. 44–48 (April 2008). The source code.
Genetic and Evolutionary Algorithms and Programing: General Introduction and Application to Game Playing, Michael Orlov, Moshe Sipper and Ami Hauptman. Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science (Data-Mining And Knowledge Discovery section), part 7, pp. 4133–4145, ISBN 978-0-387-30440-3 (June 2009). Springer New York. DOI.
Automatic Evolution of Java-Written Game Heuristics (abstract + poster), Michael Orlov, Carmel Bregman and Moshe Sipper. In Proceedings of the Third International Symposium on Search Based Software Engineering (SSBSE 2011), p. 277. Szeged, Hungary (September 10–12, 2011). Springer-Verlag, LNCS 6956. DOI.
FINCH: A System for Evolving Java (Bytecode) (+ presentation), Michael Orlov and Moshe Sipper. Genetic Programming Theory and Practice VIII (GPTP-2010), ch. 1, pp. 1–16. Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA (May 20–22, 2010). ISBN 978-1-4419-7746-5 (2011). Springer New York. DOI.
Genetic Programming in the Wild: Evolving Unrestricted Bytecode (+ presentation), Michael Orlov and Moshe Sipper. In Proceedings of the 11th Annual Conference on Genetic and Evolutionary Computation (GECCO 2009), pp. 1043–1050. Montréal Québec, Canada (July 8–12, 2009). ACM Press. DOI.
Evolutionary Software Improvement for Instruction Set Meta-evolution (+ presentation), Michael Orlov and Moshe Sipper. In WSSEC 2008 Workshop/Summer School on Evolutionary Computing, Lecture Series by Pioneers, pp. 60–63. Derry, Northern Ireland, UK (August 18–22, 2008).
Descending Requirements Search for DisCSPs (+ presentation), Michael Orlov and Amnon Meisels. In ECAI-2006 Workshop on Distributed Constraint Satisfaction Problems. Riva del Garda, Italy (August 28, 2006).
Discovering Associations in XML Data, Amnon Meisels, Michael Orlov and Tal Maor. Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Web Information Systems Engineering (Workshops) — WISEw'02, pp. 178–183. Singapore (December 11, 2002). DOI. The XML Knowledge Inference engine is available for download.
Entry and presentation at the annual HUMIES-2010 awards for human-competitive results produced by genetic and evolutionary computation. GECCO 2010, Portland, Oregon, USA (July 11, 2010).
Hierarchical Search on DisCSPs (+ presentation), Michael Orlov. Master Thesis. BGU, Israel (July 2006).